New York City's Kips Bay Makes Most of Big, Small Spaces

Some in Kips Bay Are Divided Over Plans for New Micro-Unit Apartment Building

By

Gabby Warshawer

May 2, 2013 10:24 p.m. ET

Kips Bay isn't a development hotbed, but the Manhattan neighborhood in the East 20s and 30s will soon be home to one of the higher-profile new apartment buildings in the city.

The project will comprise 55 "micro-units," or apartments smaller than the 400-square-foot minimum usually mandated by the city housing code. While some in the community are critical of aspects of the development, it will be constructed on a...